Has Treasury slashed 75pc of KNCHR's budget

National Treasury building in Nairobi

In the run-up to the repeat elections on October 26, the independence of Kenya’s public commissions was thrown into the limelight with both the Jubilee administration and NASA opposition coalition accused of interfering with the operations of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC.

Last week, Kenya National Commission for Human Rights (KNCHR) Vice Chair George Morara said despite a constitutional requirement that public commissions be independent, the government, through Treasury is often a stumbling block through denying funding.